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  1. 3000 Model 3s built so far. Discounting the 260 built in Q3, that would be ~2750 in Q4. So that's about 210 units per week - not 1000. Assuming that extra revenue, they will last until mid-June, rather than mid May. Given that TSLA is losing about $16MM per week, they would need to go way beyond your estimates to be profitable. If you're not profitable, you are losing money - and you end up going bankrupt.

    As far as Roadster and Semi deposits go, those are liabilities on the books, and need to be accounted as such. Just because someone gives you money as a deposit does not mean you can use it for whatever you like, and if you go belly up you say "sorry".

  2. Re:Theories are falsifiable, global warming is not on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Water vapor dominates greenhouse gases. Furthermore, there is peer reviewed evidence that CO2 forcing as typically used is about twice what it should be, placing CO2 down in the 5-10% range of effect. It's water vapor, not CO2, that drives most climate change. And water vapor is overwhelmingly driven by solar activity.

  3. Re:Theories are falsifiable, global warming is not on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It's sunlight, all right. Not so much CO2. Sunspots and cosmic rays - creating clouds (water vapor, a few orders of magnitude more important than CO2 in terms of heating/cooling) - cause most of it, with regular cyclic activity like the PDO and AMO.

  4. You stated the hurricanes moved NORTH and avoided the US. I wasn't aware that Europe was NORTH of Iceland...

  5. Re:isn't spotify still unprofitable? on Spotify Files To Go Public (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does profitability matter? Twitter and Snapchat showed that there are plenty of people who will throw gobs of money at you even though you aren't profitable and have no strategy to actually get to profitability...

  6. TSLA runs out of cash about May of this year. Unless they raise a lot more capital, or suddenly figure out how to ship 10X the number of cars they are shipping - they will go bankrupt.

  7. Re:Not a climate change article on It's So Cold Outside That Sharks Are Actually Freezing to Death (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When bad data is used to support a political point - yes, it should be tossed out and ignored.

  8. C'mon /. you're slipping on The 'App' You Can't Trash: How SIP is Broken in Apple's High Sierra OS (eclecticlight.co) · · Score: 1

    Clearly the issue is you're uninstalling it wrong!

  9. From a sippy cup no less!

  10. There's a lot of Canada North of the US that is also East of the US; all of Newfoundland, for one. Or did Greenland or Iceland get hammered?

  11. Re:Theories are falsifiable, global warming is not on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh, so GP AC was wrong about CO2 converting sunlight into heat.

  12. Trolls are so funny... Read the I-9 itself. Then go mumble in the corner again...

  13. You stated that an affidavit was acceptable; the I-9 says otherwise.

  14. Re:Nobody wants to work for authoritarian oligarch on NSA's Top Talent is Leaving Because of Low Pay, Slumping Morale and Unpopular Reorganization (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Since 2015, the NSA has lost several hundred hackers, engineers and data scientists, according to current and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter

    I didn't know that Trump took office in 2015... Trump: Winning even before winning!

  15. The data plotted is bad, it's all been adjusted quite heavily. Thankfully, we have a satellite record covering most of that same time period, and it has NOT been constantly massaged, homogenized, extrapolated, and fitted. And it shows terrible correlation with the models.

  16. Question for you: if you have an instrument that is accurate to 0.5 deg C, how accurate can any measurement - or any average of measurements - be? This basic fact of instrumentation and measurement is quite common on climate science.

  17. Re:Theories are falsifiable, global warming is not on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Dr. Don Easterbrook has a pretty compelling case that it is because of natural cycles, and his data seems to be quite compelling. So far, his prediction seems to be fairly accurate provided one ignore the claims about global temperature made without tolerance/error bars stated (it's hard to say things are warmer by 0.03 deg C when your tolerance/error bar is 1 deg C).

  18. Re:Theories are falsifiable, global warming is not on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Curious, I was not aware that CO2 "converts sunlight into heat". Can you expound on this new theory, that by taking some CO2, and adding some sunlight, I get more heat out of the system than the sunlight put in? Because that would tell me we could use solar collectors and compressed CO2 to great a combustion engine!

  19. Where have you been? Everyone KNOWS that the new Mac Pro has more than enough unicorn farts and Elven blood inside to do those kinds of calculations in a snap! With a beowulf cluster of those...

  20. Hurricanes moved North without hitting the US? Canada must have been decimated!

  21. Re:Climate change is not climate on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    And just a few hundred miles to the West, the UK is having an extremely cold winter with snow covering nearly all of England, and the coldest winter in 8 years hitting the Isles.

  22. Nothing would happen. In fact, DMV workers cannot ask for proof of citizenship when applying for a driver's license. At best they will advise you that voting is a right of citizens only - and will do no more than that. It's why you find multiple counties with more registered voters than adults. Simply check a box and you're done.

  23. So at best, you cancel your neighbor's vote for you. At worst - you don't vote and their vote - against your wishes - is cast. Doesn't it feel great to be disenfranchised?

  24. Because it is trivial to falsely register voters. And now one person can register dozens of fake voters and cast all those votes. It is more common than you think. For every fraudulent vote - one legal, appropriate vote was cancelled out. I wonder what many would think if we just randomly selected 3% of all ballots and tossed them out, or changed them?

  25. Re:No they shouldn't on New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What State ONLY allows ID cards acquired in-person from the DMV?